Preempting the Holocaust
TítuloPreempting the Holocaust
Autor
Call number808.93358/0023
Número del objeto03700
Lugar de publicaciónNew Haven, Connecticut, United States
EditorialYale University Press
Año de publicación
1998
Paginación207p.
MaterialBook
ISBN0300073577
Descripción
Explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film and painting. Among the authors he examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman and Simon Wesenthal. He appraises the art of Samuel Bak and assesses the "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago. He also offers a critical interpretation of Undzere Kinder, an important Yiddish film about Holocaust orphans made in Poland after the war